Rotten Candy Apple

[Arity]

So, as stated in another thread, I'm planning to put a Mini ITX build inside of an old iMac G3. Today, I received everything but the disc drive. So tonight I completed phase I: dis-assembly.

The iMac itself is in pretty good condition. It's not perfect, but it's what I could get my hands on.

The first screws I identified that I could remove were on the bottom front and behind a small panel.

Once I got those out and slid off the bottom, I got to a mesh piece with more screws still.

Once I got that off, I got a bit overwhelmed as to where to go next. So many choices.

So I followed along with this video series until I got down to the monitor.

I got the hard drive out, then the motherboard, then the housing for the cd drive, and the cd drive itself from inside the housing. And I saved this for later:

Then I moved on to removing the front and back plastic.

After spending the next hour trying to follow this document in order to get the monitor out, I finally gave up, cut it loose, and disposed of it and the top board.

I am now the proud owner of a thoroughly gutted iMac G3 case and an in-tact motherboard hdd and cd drive.

Full album here.

And here's the big box of parts

 

[CMadki4]

And here we go! Sub'd

 

[DraginDime]

This should be interesting, I will be watching for updates. Good luck!

 

[Arity]

Yesterday's update:
I began sizing out the parts to see where they would go. The PSU definitely won't just fit in the mesh at the bottom of the case, even if disassembled. So I'm not going to do anything as drastic as the Tangerine guy did. Even as far as splicing the power cord, I'm just going to buy two cords to do it with and let the one end stick out where the old port used to be in the back. That way none of the actual components need to be defaced. And then I'll just find a tasteful way to close the hole around the wire.

As for actually getting the PSU in, I'll just have to cut a bigger hole in the metal plate where the CRT electronics used to be. This will force me to get a mini itx case to cut up for the mobo mount. I6t'll probably be at a somewhat extreme angle at the end. So to estimate this, I put the mobo box in at an angle just to see if it would fit with the heat sink on top. Since it did, and since it accounts for more space than I'll likely need, it seems to me like everything topside should fit just fine. And it allows me to aim the big fan at the vent holes in the top, shooting heat directly out of the chassis.

Today's update:
I got home to find that my BDrom was delivered. I now have everything I've ordered so far. However, I was disappointed to find that it was actually a laptop drive. There was no preview picture available at the time that I had ordered it, so I had no idea. Though, I went in knowing that I'd have to make some... "accommodations" for the SSD to go where the full sized 10GB drive went. So I decided to see if maybe fitting this in instead of sending it back would be worth it. And as it turns out, I can fit both components where the one optical drive used to be.

And that's with the inner mounting bracket sunk down, the outer flush against the case, and some wiggle room still.